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-#THE JACKSON ARGOSY
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1895.
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Published every Friday in lhe Year.
President Cleveland, it is said, gave
some preachers a rebuke for touching
his ermine, etc., etc. But if we are
any authority in the matter our very
fat president got the rebuke and the
outskirts of Ids ermine didn’t escape,
either.
The Tilmanites and anti-Tilmanites
have buritd tlie hatchet in South
Carolina. Now let the Jonesites and
Kolbites in Alabama, the At kinsonites
and Watsonites, the Constitutionites
and the Jourmilites, the st ate bankites
and the silverites, and all other “ites”
in Georgia, except the gold standard
ites, do likewise, so that we can pre
sent a* solid front in ’9O, and save the
country from a thousand plagues by
saving the party of the people—the
old time Jeffersonian-Jacksonian dem
ocratic party.
There is a fool notion extant in the
world that a man must dissipate either
in cigars, whiskies, or something
worse, in order to be counted in the
“upper ten.” Such creatures could
not exist if real men and women
would, in the fear of God and the
mime of morals, do their duty. Why
don’t Christian people encourage
moral, high-toned gentlemen in their
course, rather than hang after and
secretly approve such despoilers of
society and degraders of moral tur
pi tilde?
11 is a disgrace to a man to be pro
fane. It reflects on his early sur
roundings and present manhood. But
profanity, bad as it is, is not so mean
as vulgarity. A profane man may not
regard his language as profanity, but
a vulgar man is unpardonable under
any pretext of construction. His
mind must delve and slumber in the
slime he is continually spurting out
into the ears of decent people. Be
profane, young man, if you can’t be
a gentleman and respect God ; but for
the sake of common decency and the
love of your mother and sisters, don’t
be vulgar.
The decision of the supreme court
on the income tax looks rather sus
picious. It seems to have been dic
tated. The same reasons given for
excusing the bond holders and rent
grabbers would have applied to any
part of the law. Now the very par
ties -who could not prevent the law
passing the house, have killed it so
far as they are concerned. There is
just one thing about it and that is
this: the people are going to tax all
large incomes from every source, and
this is by no means the end of this
matter. It seems that the initiative
and referendum principle must come
now or representative government is
a failure.
The gold element of this country is
surely scarce of argument when they
make this appeal to the selfishness of
the people: “Xo one except the
owners of silver mines would be bene
fited by free coinage.” Now if this is
true in regard to silver, it is also true
in regard to gold, and no one is bene
fited by the free coinage of gold ex
cept the owners of gold mines. Either
proposition is absurd, and the people
are directly benefited by the free
coinage of both metals. Every man
who has wheat, corn or cotton to sell
would get twice as many dollars for
it under a double standard that he
would under a single standard, and
the producers would all be benefited
in the products of any and all kinds of
labor.
The Macon Herald says r
“Any platform which will allow Richard
Bland and Qrover Cleveland to stand on it is
not an honest platform. The people want hon
esty in politics just once.”
Honesty will pevail next time. The
democrats are going to declare them
selves either one way or the other at
their next national convention. A
victory won by doubtful methods is
worse than defeat . Nothing is easier
than for a party to define itself in
plain and unmistakable language, and
the people will never again be caught
by a dodge or makeshift. The demo
cratic party will have to return to
the old landmarks; though it may be
defeated once, democratic principles
must finally triumph or our govern
ment die. “Truth crushed to earth
will rise again,” and truth is the only
stable and enduring thing on this
mundane sphere. All men and par
ties must be honest first and success
ful afterwards.
The Philadelphia Times says:
“We will support no man for president in
IK6 who is not squarely for honest money, for
that is the paramount issue."’
It claims to be a democratic paper.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
“Admiring ihe candor of Col. McClure, we
propose to be equally candid. We hereby pledge
the Constitution to support no man for presi
dent in 1806 who is not opposed to the dishon
est dollar which, by constantly appreciating in
value, has doubled all debts and taxes and ha?
robbed the people of the profits of their labor
for the sole benefit of a small class of money
sharks and gold gamblers. Moreover, we pledge
the Constitution to support no man for presi
dent in ism; who is in favor of the British gold
standard, and opposed to restoring silver to its
constitutional use aa standard money metal.”
It is a democratic paper. Now we
rise to a question of personal privilege
and ask : “Where are we at?”
The mills are assure to come to the
cotton fields of the south as water is
to seek ti level. The man or men who
conduct and own the mill industry of
the south, are the future rich men oi
this rich section. McDonough is going
to build one. Why can’t Jackson?
O, business men, come together, and
let’s have a cotton factory in Jackson 1
FAST JACKSON ITEMS.
Editors Argus :
Our settlement is infested with the
measles. lam sorry for any one who
has them, for I know what they are.
Mr. P. H. Hencely has three cases at
his house, and they are severe cases.
They have caused the most of our
children to abandon school; but the
scriptures tell us that such things will
come, and the end of time is not yet.
If it was itch instead of measles, I
could prescribe a cure for it, but as it
is I can’t.
Bro. Andy Plunket has returned
home from school to take up his abode
with us. I think from the way Andy
is practicing he lias come to join the
Sunday evening bicycle club; but as
there is nothing sacred in Sunday
bicycling, I don’t believe many of our
young men will neglect there Sunday
schools and other things pertaining to
worship for a Sunday evening ride.
I want Tom and Jerry to come and
spend the night with us, as they are
one after my own heart.
A strange beast has been prowling
about in East Jackson, and from the
track it made it was not a blind tiger.
It must be one of those
Jolin, the revelator, spoke of, that
had four heads and ten horns; if so,
we trust it will come in contact with
our native “tiger” and make him
hump.
It looks like business to see" our far
mers hauling out guano ; such as that
puts new life into our old land.
It seems like we are going to be
blessed with a bountiful fruit crop;
it will be very acceptable, as we have
been patiently waiting for three years
—and I for one am hungry.
E. J.
A CORRECTION.
Editors Argus :
I notice in your two last issues that
your correspondent from Stark signed
“Democrat,” has had me quite ill
with pneumonia, and fearing he will
report me dead and buried in this
week’s issue, I write this to say that
I’m not sick, nor haven’t been. How
ever, if “Democrat” will agree to feed
me a week he will find out he has
made a broad mistake so far as my
being sick is concerned, and when his
grocery man presents that'week’s bill,
Mr. Democrat will turn black in the
face from the fact that he will realize
his wife and “kids” will have to do
without those 5-cens calico dresses
they arewcounting on buying next fall
with 5-cotton, in order to pay off that
week’s grocery bill.
Carrie Moore.
Barnett’s Mills, Ga.
TUX RECEIVER'S HOTICE,
FIRST HOUND.
I will l>o at the following named places on
the date given opposite each place, for the pnr
•pose of receiving State and County Tax Returns
for the year 1895:
Stark—Saunder’s Store, April 9.
Worthville—Barnes' jit ore, •• 10.
Jenkinsburg, “ 11.
Kinards—Store, “ 12.
Elgin, “ 13.
Dublin, “ 18.
Flovilla, “ 19.
Jackson, “ 20.
.T. W. HAM,
mar29-tf Tax Receiver Butts Cos., Ga.
LETTERS OF DISMISSION.
GEORGIA —Butts County.
Whereas, J. H. Carmichael, administrator of
E. S. Wynn, represents to the court in his peti
tion, duly filed and entered on record, that he
has fully administered E. §. Wynn’s estate;
this is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration and receive
letters of dismission, on the first Monday in
June next. This the 4th day of March, 1895.
J. F. CARMICHAEL,
marS-3m Ordinary.
Ke •Advertised
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
GEORGIA—Butts County.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi
nary of Butts county, will be sold on the first
Tuesday in May, 1895. at the court house door
in said county, between tHe legal sale hours,
the tract of land in said county belonging to
the estate of Mary J. Bearden, adjoining lands
of Miss Mollie Bearden, C. A. Garr and Amos
estate lands, containing 50acres; also2sacres
adjoining Miss Mollie Bearden on the east,
north by lands of Catharine Amos, west by J.
N. Brownlee and south by Amos place. Sold as
the property of Mary J. Bearden, deceased,-to
pay the debts of said deceased and for distrib
ution. Terms cash. March 22,1895.
JOSEPH JOLLY, <
mar 22 tt Adm’r of M. J. Bearden. \
!M|! liiltS A>SV. Klihl!
Some Important Information on
Various Subjects.
INSPECTING COTTONSEED MEAL.
Uplaul Rice Can lie Male Very Profitable
as Forage Food—How to IJ.-stroy lier
niDila Grs—Protection I or Farmers In
Fraudulent Fertiliz -rs —Crop Statistics
and Other News oi Interest.
Department of Agriculture.
Atlanta, April 1, 1895.
“natural plant food.”
Question I.—There is a fertilizer be
ing offered for sale in the state under
the name of “Natural Plant Food.”
Please tell ns something of it. con
stituents, and if it is wbafrdt claims to
be.
Answer I.—The “Natural Plant
Food” is masquerading uuder false
colors. The name is most misleading,
and if the goods is still kept on the
market, will render the parties selling
liable to prosecution for misdemeanor.
Tne goods is a Florida soft phosphate
which claims 1 per cent of potash and
21.60 per cent of insoluble phosphoric
acid. But careful analysis reveals the
fact that it has no potash and about
2.37 per cent only, of available phos
phoric acid.
The department has already notified
the manufacturers that they cannot
legally sell it under its present name.
If they put it on the market in its true
character with correct analysis and
farmers choose to buy it as such, there
can be no objection urged.
INSPECTION OF COTTONSEED MEAL.
Question 2. —Does not the law re
quire that all cottonseed meal sold in
this state shall be inspected, analyzed
and tagged with a printed guarantee
of ammonia on each sack?
Answer 2. —Yes. Inspectors have
been instructed to exercise great vig
ilance in order to detect violations of
the law, and have discovered that at
tempts are being made to ship meal
into this state from Texas, and in or
der to avoid the 10 cents inspection
fee, efforts are being made to sell this
meal without inspection or guarantee.
It is to the interest of farmers to report
all such cases, as the meal varies in
ammonia. The law requires first grade
8 1-2 per cent of dmiponia, second
grade 7 1-3 per cent, but iu some sea
sons the meal runs below this stand
ard, and instances of adulterations are
also reported.
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Question 3.—Has the state a veteri
nary surgeon in its employ? We wish
to know beeause our stock are suffer
ing from some unknown disease and
we want information and direction as
to treatment ett.
Answer 3. —No provision is specifi
cally made tor a veterinary surgeon,
but under the terms of the law the
commissioner is empowered to investi
gate all such diseases, and will, when
called upon, use funds from the depart
ment- to send a competent surgeon who
will examine and prescribe and report
results to the department. 1
CROP STATISTICS.
Question 4. —Can you give me the
latest crop statistics for this state ?
Answer 4. —The crop statistics for
1894 tell in an eloquent way the story
of its agricultural possibilities, and
show the wide diversity of its produc
tions, and are as follows! Wheat, bush
els, 1,733,000; corn, 83,678,000; oats, 7-,
847,987; rye, 131,164; potatoes, 483,886;
hay, tons, 224,117; peanuts, bushels,
624,528; cotton, bales, 1,191,846. It has
105,984 horses, 161,024 mules, 873,926
meat cattle, 411,169 sheep and 1,791,567
hogs. The wool clip was 831,141
pounds; the butter product, 14,8483,323
pounds; honey, 1,056,034 and 48,935
pounds of beeswax. The poultry stock
numbered 7,357,934 and the egg product
11,522,788 dozen of eggs. The rice
product was 14,556,432 pounds, and of
tobaooo 263,752 pounds.
These figures show better than any
mere words that Georgia is well adapt
ed to all branches of husbandry, and
further comment as to its agricultural
possibilities is superfluous.
UPLAND RICE.
Question s. — Can you tell me some
thing of the culture of upland rice?
There will no doubt be a good deal of
rice planted in this section of Georgia,
as we have a good rice huller and mill.
Answer s.—The following is the
successful plan pursued by a South
Carolina planter, who says:
“I consider upland rice a fine and
profitable grain to grow—the grain for
the table and forage for cattle. I se
lect the stiffest land on my farm for
rice culture. It would grow equally as
well if not better on swamp land. I
break up my land very thoroughly,
then run off rows three feet wide, bed
ding the land as if for cotton, and us
ing about 200 pounds commercial or
other fertilizer to the acre. I then
open the bed with a small plow and
drill the rice seed iu the drill, using
only about half a peck to the acre.
Then putting a board on my plowstock
I drag it over the furrow, covering the
seed about 11-2 inches deep. I plant
from April 1 to April 15. I cultivate
with a sweep, as with cotton. I hull
it for table use in an oldfashioned
wooden beater or huller; or I send it to
Charleston to be hulled. I make from
25 to 30 bushels per acre. I have been
planting rice for three years, and have
been successful in making a good crop
each year. ’*
A gentleman near Ridge Springs, S.
C., showed not long since what seemed
to be a very small plat of ground, yet
he grew on it a two years’ supply of
rice for his family.
Another at Sparta, Ga., grows up
land rice solely as a forage crop. He
plants it quite thickly, cuts it like oat
—heads and all—afterward feeding the
sheaves. He makes at least 40 bushel*
per acre of seed. His cattle are more
fond of it than oats. He considers the
rice a oeiver xood, and no caa
more of it than of oats.
In the March number of the South
ern Cultivator is a most ar
tide on*the culture of uplan . rice i>
southwest Georgia. Beiore the war
and several years after, when w
planted iu that section of the state, tn
industrious negroes on the various pi u
tations had their patches of rice fro
which th y not only added to their own
famiiv sieves, but had a surplus for
sale, and the oldfasnioned mortar and
pasrle by which the hull was separated
from the grain was not at all an nu
usual sight.
FIVE DOLLAR FERTILIZERS.
Question B.— The following is a re
ply to a letter received at the state ag
riculiural department asking for infor
mation as to $5.0 0 combination fertili
zers.
Answer 6. — Dear Sir: of the
thirtieth at hand. You can buy kainit,
muriate of potash, and other chemicals
from Wilcox, Gibbs & Cos., Savannah,
Ga.
Kainit contains about 1C per cent of
potash. Muriate of potash contains
about 50 per cent of potash, or about
four times as strong as kainit. If you
wish cheap hauling you should buy the
concentrated fertilizing chemicals.
You can buy muriate of potash at
about $49.00 a ton, probably a little
higher in less lots than a ton.
Asa $5 combination of fertilizers I
suggest- the following:
No. I—Muriate1 —Muriate of
potash containing 50
per cent of p >tash.. 37 lbs.(at i'4o a ton) 74
High grade acid
phosphate contain
ing is per cent of
phosphoric acid.. .280 lbsfat sls a t0n)2.10
Nitrate of soda
{sometimes called
Chili salt petre)oon
taining nitrogen e
quivaient to 19 per
cent of ammonia:.: 95 lbs(at sls a t0n)2.14
Muck of woods
earth or mari : 158S lbs. 00
2000 lbs. $4.98
If you wish an ammoniate not quite
so quick as nitrate of soda, and less
likely to “fire” on shallow soils, you
might use the following:
No. 2—Muriate of potash 87 lbs .71
High grade acid phosphate 280 lbs 2.10
Dried blood 118 lbs 2.15
Muck, woods earth or marl 1571 lbs .00
2000 lbs $4.99
If you desire to use sulphate of am
monia as au ammoniate, the following
formula will answer:
No. o—Muriate of potash 37 lbs .74
High grade acid phosphate 280 lbs 2.10
Sulphate of ammonia (at)
SBO a ton).. i i>. 54 lbs 2.16
Muck, woods eart h or marl 1699 lbs 00
1629 lbs $5,00
No. 1 will give you from the chem
icals alone*.
Potash.. >Tf. . . 92 1-2 per cent
Available phospho. acid 2.52 par cent
Ammonia. .90 1-4 par cent
No. 2 will give you from the chem
icals alone:
Potash 93 1-2 per cent
Available phospho, acid..,2,52 per cent
Ammonia,,, .89 1-2 per cent
No. 3 will give you from the chemi
icals alone:
Potash 92 4-2 per cent
Available phospho. ack1..2.52 percent
Amm0nia,..............i.. ,87 1-9 per cent
The filler which you use, whether of
muck, woods earth or marl, will add
something to this if well selootod.
The sulphate of ammonia Is a more
expensive ammonia that either blood
or nitrate of soda. You write that you
will have to pay 8 cents a pound for it.
This is a very high price. If you find
any of the chemicals higher priced
than figures given above, use about 75
cents wqrth of your potash compound,
about sl.lO worth of your acid phos
phate and about $2.15 worth of your
ammoniate, and then use your muck,
woods earth or marl to make up the
balance of the ton, and you will strike
about the proper proportions for your
$5.00 a ton fertilizer.
MECHANICAL EFFECT OF POTASH.
Question 7.—1 see in your reports
that you lay stress on the meohanical
condition of the soil. Do any of the
ordinary ingredients of a fertilizer,
phosphoric acid, ammonia and potash
have a mechanical effect?
Answer 7. —Aside from the organic
matter which is supplied with some
forms of ammonia, potash, by combin
ing chemically with the sand of the
soil, acts as a mechanical manure. By
the combination the surface of the par
ticles of sand is roughened, in which
condition the soil is less liable to be
compacted by rain. This mechanical
effect is not, however, of very great
importance, for the reason that it is
only produced when the potash is ap
plied in the caustic form. The usual
commercial fertilizer is supplied with
potash in the form of kainit or muriate,
which does not produce the mechanical
effect. All potash salts are beneficial
as conservators of moisture.
STABLE MANURE.
Question S.—What do you consider
the most economic method of saving
stable manure ?
Answer 8. —There is no better way
to avoid loss than by plowing manure
directly into the soil. Where the ma
nuring is very heavy, especially on clay
soils, a benefit arises from its fermen
tation in the soil, a mechanical effect
being produced by the chemical action.
Composting properly also requires more
labor and more expensive accommoda
tions, and if decomposition takes place
without proper precaution the most
valuable part of the manure will b 9
lost. It must be remembered, however,
that it is only after the manure is de
composed and the nitrogen converted
into ammonia that it becomes availa
ble for plants. Where an immediate
effect is desired, therefore, such as iu
the case of intercultural fertilizing, it
is essential that the manure be com
posted.
Barnyard manure is the subject of
investigation of a practical character
that will interest our readers. Farm
er’s Bulletin 21, experiment station,
department of agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C., will explain all. Write for
it; it will be sent to you free of charge
Contents: Manure as a farm resource;
amount, value, and composition of ma
uure prouuotsU u> auiniais;
comparative value of solid and liquid
parts; influence of age and kind of an
imal; influence of quality and kind of
food: influence of the nature and pro
portion of litter; management of ma
nure; use of manure; combining barn
yard manure with other fertilizing
materials; lasting or cumulating effect
of barnyard manure; summary.
GLANDERS.
Question 0. —Is it true that a per
son can contract glanders from au in
fected animal?
Answer 9. —The veterinarian of the
Michigan state board of health in his
last annual report thus speaks of gland
ers. It is a caution well worth con
siderationf
Glanders is cue of the most loath
some, infectious and fatal diseases
which infect the equine race. And
yet, no weii animal kept or worked
with one having the disease, is more
liable to contract it than the owner or
person who feeds, grooms and drives
him, unless he has knowledge of the
disease and care necessary to be used
in handling the animal. The person
who unconsciously takes care of and
drives a horse affected ■with glanders
takes his life in his own hands every
time he feeds, grooms or adjusts a
bridge. The virus from the horse’s
nose, ejected by coughing or sneezing,
and striking in the eye, or falling upon
a scratch or pimple in the skin, will
perform the fatal inoculation. Matter
from eruptions from the legs and other
parts of the animal’s body, caused by
its kindred disease, “farcy,” will pro
dttce the disease with equal certainty.
Reports of more than a score of men,
and several women, who have lost their
lives by this disease within the past
few years in this state, have come to
our commission, the doctors attending
almost invariably calling the disease
“blood poisoning. ” Is there not a
field opened here for useful study and
investigation? Is it not possible that if
practitioners better understood the na
ture and most approved treatment of
the disease, some valuable lives might
be saved?
TO DESTROY BERMUDA GRASS.
Question 10.—Can you give me an
effectual method of destroying Bermu
da grass ?
Answer 10. —The following, taken
from bulletin 25 of the Arkansas exper
iment station, is said to be entirely
successful:
Break close with scooter (bull tongue)
crossplow with 14 inch heelsweep and
harrow thoroughly. A few days later
harrow in rye or barley in the fall and
oats in the spring. Cut grain for hay
and remove from the ground. Break
again w r ith scooier and heelsweep as
before and harrow in dry weather.
If grass is not all killed, plant peas
(whippoorwill or unknown cowpeas)
thick in two and a half or three feet
rows and cultivate frequently with
heelsweep until peas lap across rows.
If grass still remains, which is very
improbable, cut peavines and plow and
harrow again. The plowing in all cases
should be thorough, no unbroken places
being left. By this treatment the Ber
muda will be destroyed and the labor
employed for its destruction will have
produced two crops in one year on the
same soil, either of which will pay for
the labor expended for the production
of both and the Bermuda killed inci
dentally and without cost.
FRAUDS IN FERTILIZERS.
Question 11.—We are atraid we
have been imposed updn in the pur
chase of our fertilizers. How can we
protect ourselves and obtain redress?
Answer 11.—Keep one of the sacks
unbroken and place it under shelter, so
that the analysis on the bag will not
become blurred or effaced—then notify
the department and a sworn inspector
will be sent, who will draw a sample
and forward the same to the depart
ment, where it will be thoroughly
analyzed without cost to the farmer.
The law is very strict, and if there is
evidence of fraud, the penaly is heavy
and the farmer is not compelled to pay
for the' goods. If farmers would only
acquaint themselves with the law and
avail themselves of its provisions, it
furnishes them ample protection.
SPRAYING- OPERATIONS.
Question 12.—Can you give some
general directions for spraying fruit
trees, vines, etc.?
Answer 12. —From valuable experi
ment station bulletins we find that
spraying operations for this month will
include the spraying of apple, pear and
plum trees with Bordeaux mixture hall
strength, with Paris green one pound
in 159 gallons, just before the blossoms
open, and again after the blossoms have
fallen.
Grapevines should be sprayed before
the leafbuds open with a strong solu
tion of copper sulphate. Just before
the flowers open with Bordeaux mix
ture and Paris green, 1 pound to 100
gallons.
Raspberry and blackberry bushes
should be sprayed with Bordeaux mix
ture half strength just before the blos
soms open.
Sfrawberryvines should be sprayed
with Bordeaux mixture half strength
and Paris gr oQ h 1 pound to 100 gallons
as early as possible, the Bordeaux mix
ture without Paris green to be used
just before flowers open. Spray again
after the fruit is picked if the bed is to
be kept over, using both Paris green
and Bordeaux mixture.
The foliage of the peach is very sus
ceptible to injury from copper solutions
which should be applied at one-third to
one-fourth the strength as used for ap
ple3 or pears. The peachbuds may be
protected by bending the limb3 toward
the ground.
THE OX WARBLE OR BOT FLY.
Question 13. —Can you tell me any
thing about the maggots which are
found along the backs of our
the young ones more especially? What
causes them, and is there any preven
tion?
Answer 13.—We have frequently
been annoyed by the to which
you refer, aud while they seem to occa
sion little pain to the animal, they cer
tainly decrease the amount and quality
of the flesh and lessen the value of the
hides at lea't one third.
As to their causes, habits and pre
vention, we extract the following in
formation from the North Carolina ex
periment station:
; The fly which causes this damage is
about the size and very much resem
bles a honey bee. It deposits its ggs
in the spring, during the period of
shedding of hair, on the legs, tail and
belly of cattle, preferably yearlings.
By licking these parts the eggs are
taken into the animal’s gullets where
the maggots hatch and clings to the
walls. It soon bores into tissues and
eventually—during the succeeding fall
or winter—finds its way to the ani
mal’s back where it forms a tumor just
beneath the skin. Here it rests for
some time aud completes its growth as
a maggot. Each tumor, if closely ex
amined, will show a small pore,
through which the maggot obtains air.
When full grown the maggot enlarges
this pore, and through it comes out and
drops to the ground*, into which it en
ters and remains dormant as a pupa for
about six weeks. It then comes forth
as a perfect fly to lay its eggs as before.
Remedies —During the period of hair
shedding, horned cattle should have
the tail, belly aud legs—especially the
parts just above the hoofs—rubbed two
j or three times a week with a mixture
i of kerosene or fish oil and powdered
sulphur.
In January and February the backs
of cattle should be carefully examined
for the tumors,, which are readily seen
or felt just beneath the skin, and the
enclosed maggot squeezed out and
killed. A little crude carbolic acid or
mercurial ointment should be then
rubbed on the spot. If the maggot
cannot be squeezed out, the oil or oint
ment should be well rubbed in, so as to
close up the breaking pore in the tu
mor, thus smothering the maggot.
The warble fly is not a great traveler
and if all the maggots infesting cattle
on any farm are killed in January or
February, that farm will be nearly or
quite free from the parasite for some
years, unless introduced with new
stock. Killing the maggots in the tu
mors is the easiest and surest way of
getting rid of this expensive intruder.
OXEN EPIDEMIC.
Report of the Veterinary Surgeon on a
Destructive Disease In Dooley County.
The following is the report of the
veterinary surgeon, sent by the depart
ment of agriculture to investigate and
prescribe for an epidemic among the
oxen, 60 in number, working at the
lumber wood of Messrs. O’Neal &
Gross in Dooley county.
Atlanta, March 25.
Hon R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner of
of Agriculture:
Dear Sir— At your request, I visited
the lumberwood of Messrs. O’Neal &
Gross, at Penia, Dooly county, Ga., on
the nineteenth to investigate a disease
among their work oxen. Five were
dead and buried when I arrived and
four sick in the lot in Penia. We went
out on a tram car four miles in the
woods, where the oxen worked. The
overseer reported about 30 more sick.
From a hasty examination I was satis
fied that there was an epidemic that
would go through the entire herd and
I advised them to be sent into Penia,
where they could be put under proper
treatment. The following morning I
went through the entire herd and found
all affected. I took the temperature of
each one, many going as .high as 103
and 103 3-4.
The disease is a well defined epidemic
of red water (haenew albominveria),
characterized by emissions of red color
ed urine; the discharges from the bow
els were tinged with blood and mu
cous; the pulse was quick and breath
ing horrible.
The causes of this outbreak, I think,
are due to impure water from a well
the oxen were watered from. Owing to
the low flat situation the surface water
from the lot was washed into it.
I consider the epidemic a mild form
that readily responded to treatment
which we gave first by purgatives, fol
lowed by antiseptic and alterative med
icines. Respectfully, J. N. Cook,
Veterinary Surgeon.
FARM MODELS FOR THE COTTON STATES
AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
The department of agriculture would
call attention to the valuable object
lesson contained in the following, which
we hope thousands of farmers will
study.
One of the most interesting and in
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display in the forestry building at the
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and forest growth properly disposed, in
good condition, the roads running at
proper levels instead of up and down,
the fences reduced to the smallest extent
practicable.
> It is hoped that this object lesson will
be studied by every farmer and stimu
late him to improved methods.
COST OF PRODUCTION OF COTTON.
It is a fact not generally realized
that production and manufacture of
cotton employs more labor and capital
and more intelligence and energy than
any other known crop.
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